Analysis Of The Book Thief

The Nazi were looking in people houses to find if people where helping the Jews but Liesel saves Max by tell her parents that the Nazi where coming. Liesel steal a book from the major house again and someone found out Ilsa found out and left a note saying she knows about the thievery and that it is okay for Liesel to take the books, but that she should come to the front door next time. A bunch of Jews were walking in the street of Molching and Hans see an old man fall and Hans give them food and gets beat up because people said that Hans was a Jew lover. Hans got accepted to be in the Nazi Party his job is Special Air Raid Unit. They remain above ground during an air raid to clean up and collect the dead bodies. Hans broke his leg and came back to his family. A bunch of Jews came on the street of Molching but this time max was in the group and Liesel and Max get beat up for talking together. Liesel goes back to the mayor house and shreds a book and leaves a note saying I’m not coming back. Ilsa give a little black book to Liesel telling her to write her own book and she does the title of the book was “The Book Thief”. Liesel few months later was in a basement editing her book but then the book gets picked up and thrown to the garbage and somebody picked

Max’s father saved Hans life in World War I. It was the Hubermanns job to return the favor by letting Max take hostage in there basement. Liesel liked Max because they had a lot in common.

Liesel’s first encounter with the power of words was when Hans was teaching her how to read. Liesel desperately wanted to learn how to read The Gravedigger’s Handbook. Liesel’s last memory of her brother and mother was when she had to bury his brother after he died. Her brother’s death was the first immense loss of a loved one. Liesel associates the event with the book she picked up off

Liesel and her brother are travelling by train to Munich with their mother to be given to their foster parents when she notices her brother is sideways and dead. After Werner’s funeral, Liesel, overcome with shock and

The novel is narrated by Death, a guy who’s getting tired and bored of his job. He wants a vacation, but sadly no one can replace him. He tries to find ways to give meaning to his job. He is fascinated by humans and colours of the world, and he is curious of how humans are capable of so much ugliness and so much beauty. Death is some way more human than a lot of people.

With the author using a third person omniscient narrator, which is death, this improves the strength of the theme. With death being the narrator of the book it helps the reader see how death was all around Liesel. “You see, to me, for just a moment, despite all of the colors that touch and grapple with what I see in this world, I will often catch an eclipse when a human dies. I’ve seen millions of theme. I’ve seen more eclipses than I care to remember” (Zusak 11). Death darkens the story and this makes you feel their emotions. With a third person omniscient

The tone of the narrator, Death, is intimate throughout the book. When he first sees Liesel, he becomes interesting in her as he takes away her brother’s soul. Events lead him into interacting with many people in Liesel’s life and the war allows him to see her often, this attraction is encompassed on the last few words of the book, “I am haunted by humans” ( Zusak 550). Death, who seems to haunt millions of people around the world, is haunted by humans. It is ironic but it shows the beauty that is humans. This desire to see Liesel, to be haunted by her, leads to a caring tone, but this does not mean that Death is basis in his telling of the story. Death tries to forget Liesel but periodically, he goes to check. His being haunted does not only apply to Liesel, he is able to recall the deaths of many other humans that had captured his eye or in someway is connected to Liesel. There is a fondness when Death thinks of humans and a slight dislike but he craves to see certain ones and to interact with them. Humans are so interesting, complex, and eye catching that Death wishes to watch over some of

In conclusion, by choosing death as the narrator Markus Zusak provides the reader with the information that Liesel does not know and death knows but also describes Liesel, her life and how she feels about the things that are happening in her life. Also, by choosing death as the narrator it allows Zusak to describe the other characters and their thoughts which is effective because it does not create confusion and makes the reader eager to read more. For example, “AN ATTRIBUTIVE OF ROSA HUBERMANN She was a good woman for a crisis”. This is written in bold which means that it has been used as a distraction and to give information about the characters who death is talking about and it also provides the reader with the opinion of

Liesel's biological parents were Communists, a group despised by the Nazis. Thus, they were killed. However, despite knowing their inevitable fate, her parents made sure to keep Liesel alive by sending her to another family within Germany: the Hubermann family. There, Liesel slowly adapted to life. She learned to read and write German and even made a loyal friend, Rudy Steiner. However, these events were only minor steps leading up to the turning point in the story: Max Vandenberg’s arrival . Max was a Jew, a trait - like being a Communist - that was despised by the Nazis, but during the previous World War, his father had saved Hans Hubermann’s life. Consequently, Hans (Liesel’s father) vowed to secretly care for Max. The rest of the story revolved around saving

Liesel Meminger went through several crucial events that shaped her life and made her a stronger person. The first crucial event Liesel experienced was being taken away from her mother. Being taken from her mother led her to Molching, Germany where she underwent many other imperative events. After Liesel was taken away from her mother, she was driven to her new foster family’s home on 33 Himmel Street. In Molching, Liesel learned how to read and write. Liesel befriended many people in Molching that help shape her life such as Rudy Steiner who served as a good friend to Liesel, Hans Huberman who taught Liesel how to read, Rosa Huberman who taught Liesel basic chores, Max Vanderburg who helped to teach Liesel how to love everyone, and Ilsa Hermann

At the very beginning of the story, Death describes Lisel on a train with her mother and brother. The family was all asleep until Liesel’s brother started having a coughing fit, and Liesel woke up to find that her brother was dead. “With one eye open, one still in a dream, the book thief-also known as Liesel Meminger-could see without question that her younger brother, Werner, was now sideways and dead” (Zusak 20). Liesel and her mother brought her brother’s corpse outside the train and laid him gently in the snow. Death describes Werner’s death as white, which in his world means a peaceful death. The boy was buried in the nearest town’s cemetery. After Werner was set to rest, Liesel begins to dig in the snow in disbelief that he had died. The girl’s mother has to drag her away as she cries and screams in grief for her brother. The death of

Rising Action: Ulrich strayed away from his foresters and then finally finds the person he was hunting, Georg Znaeym, the current head of the Znaeym family.

Hans gives humanity to someone stripped of their humanity when he gives bread to a jew, paints over graffiti, and hides Max. The Jews are being paraded through the town of Molching on

ELIC begins with attending the funeral of Oskar’s father, with the father passing after the events of 9/11. The event

The film opens with a train traveling through the European countryside. It is 1938. Liesel Meminger sits on the train with her mother and younger brother, only to look over and find that her brother dies in her mothers arms. As they bury her brother, the gravedigger drops a book and Liesel picks it up and takes it with her. It is the only left that she has to remember her brother. She is then taken to her new foster parents, Rosa and Hans Hubermann. Upon her arrival, she meets Rudy Steiner who will be her best friend until the end; his end at least.